MISCELLANY, 17th & 18th CENTURY - Thomas SPRAT (1635-1713). The History of the Royal Society of London. [etc.]

MISCELLANY, 17th and 18th CENTURY - Thomas SPRAT (1635-1713).  The History of the Royal Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge … The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for J. Knapton (and others), 1734. 4to (227 x 180mm). Title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates, initials and ornaments (some light mainly marginal staining). Contemporary calf (rebacked some time ago, rubbed and scuffed, a few strips worn). Provenance: James Barlow (old signature on title); old inscription on rear endpaper. With 10 other miscellaneous 17^th- and 18^th-century works in 11 vols, namely Pliny’s Epistolae et Panegyricus. Editio nova (Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1659, 12mo, contemporary vellum), La Vie de Sainte Therese ecrite par elle-mesme. De la Traduction de Monsieur Arnauld d’ Andilly (Paris, 1670, 4to, contemporary calf), Ovid’s Metamorphosen (Amsterdam, 1683, large 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plates, contemporary vellum), Juvenal’s Satyrae … Editio nova (Amsterdam, 1684, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked), Albius Tibulli’s [Opera] (Amsterdam, 1708, 4to, fine engraved frontispiece, plates, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), Horace’s [Opera], edited by Richard Bentley (Amsterdam, 1713, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled vellum, contemporary pen-and-ink portrait of Bentley loosely-inserted), Sextus Propertius’s Elegiarum libri quatuor (Amsterdam, 1727, 4to, fine engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf), John Milton’s Paradise Lost. A New Edition, By Richard Bentley (London, 1732, 4to, lacks the plates, contemporary calf, rebacked), William Wycherley’s The Country Wife … (Altered from Wycherley.) (Dublin, 1766, modern cloth) and John Ireland’s Hogarth Illustrated (London, 1791, 2 vols, engraved plates by Hogarth, contemporary calf). Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)